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Jan 14, 2018, 7:49 PM

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator who attended a Thursday immigration meeting at the White House forcefully denied on Sunday that President Trump had used the phrase “######## countries” in describing Haiti and African nations, saying a Democratic senator’s account of the session was “a gross misrepresentation.”

Senator David Perdue, Republican of Georgia, said on ABC’s “This Week” that Mr. Trump “did not use that word,” and accused Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, of distorting what the president had said at the meeting, which included more than a half-dozen lawmakers.

Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, joined Mr. Perdue later in the morning in questioning Mr. Durbin.

“I didn’t hear that word either,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I was sitting no further away from Donald Trump than #### Durbin was.”
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Mr. Cotton said Mr. Durbin “has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings,” a comment that Mr. Perdue echoed in his interview Sunday morning.

Ben Marter, a spokesman for Mr. Durbin, immediately attacked their assertions.

“Credibility is something that’s built by being consistently honest over time,” Mr. Marter wrote on Twitter. “Senator Durbin has it. Senator Perdue does not. Ask anyone who’s dealt with both.”
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The remarks by Mr. Perdue and Mr. Cotton were an escalation from a statement they released on Friday, when they said they did “not recall the president saying these comments specifically.”

They also appear to conflict with the account of Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who was at the Thursday meeting. Mr. Graham told a fellow South Carolina Republican, Senator Tim Scott, that reports in the news media of Mr. Trump’s language were “basically accurate.” The other lawmakers at the meeting, all Republicans, have either not discussed it publicly or made only vague comments.

The Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, who also attended the meeting, said on “Fox News Sunday” that she could not recall the president “saying that exact phrase.”
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Mr. Durbin had told reporters on Friday that Mr. Trump had used the word “########” several times in front of the group during a discussion of a proposed bipartisan deal on immigration, and had said “things which were hate-filled, vile and racist.”

“I cannot believe that, in the history of the White House in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday,” Mr. Durbin said.

Mr. Graham had reportedly admonished the president during the meeting by telling him that “America is an idea, not a race.” And a number of top Senate Republicans joined Mr. Graham on Friday in pushing back against Mr. Trump’s comments.

On Sunday morning, Mr. Durbin returned to the issue when he responded to a tweet Mr. Trump had posted accusing Democrats of wanting only “to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military” in their discussions on immigration policy.

DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Jan. 14, 2018

Mr. Durbin wrote, “Republicans and Democrats negotiated in good faith to reach a deal that gives you what you asked for in front of the country on Tuesday. It’s time to lead and support the bipartisan deal.”

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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said fellow South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham confirmed President Trump referred to some nations as “######## countries” during a White House meeting that Graham attended with lawmakers Thursday.

Scott told the Post and Courier that Graham said the comments that have been widely reported by the press are “basically accurate.”

During the meeting in the Oval Office, where senators gathered to talk about a possible bipartisan immigration deal, Trump began to discuss immigration from African nations and questioned why the U.S. is “having all these people from ######## countries come here?”

The president also made derogatory comments about Haiti when the senators were discussing temporary protected status programs. by Melissa Quinn Washington Examiner.

Yes, was a great article, especially considering where it

Re: Yes, was a great article, especially considering where it

Re: Yes, was a great article, especially considering where it

According to what the President allegedly said.....

Not that it matters.

Re: Not that it matters.

Amazing that it took 2 days for them to respond...

Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott confirmed Trump comments.

Re: Good write up on Kendall Joseph

Stop writing racist crap on these Kendall Joseph posts.

It isn't crap...

Re: It isn't crap...

KJ is a huge piece of our Defense. Bigger than most people

Right, to soil this post on Kendall's accomplishments

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